OnlySubs Episode 27: There Is No Evidence for Critical Race Theory is now available exclusively for New Discourses contributors on the following platforms:
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We often hear about Critical Race Theory and even that there is evidence for Critical Race Theory even though Critical Race Theory denies the value of evidence and calls it a vestige of “white supremacy culture” to rely upon evidentiary thinking. So, is there evidence for Critical Race Theory? In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I make a short argument that not only is there no evidence for Critical Race Theory, there cannot be evidence for Critical Race Theory, by virtue of the way that it has arranged its basic assumptions. There may be evidence for certain claims that Critical Race Theory makes, but, based on its own assumptions, there cannot be evidence for the Theory itself. Join me to understand how they get everything backwards.
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Dear James:
As a former philosophy teacher, I highly recommend reading Francis Bacon. I and my students agree that his writings are crisp and tasty.
LVI: “The human understanding, when any proposition has been once laid down (either from general admission and belief, or from the pleasure it affords), forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although most cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet either does not observe or despises them, or gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather than sacrifice the authority of its first conclusions.”
–Francis Bacon
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/45988/45988-h/45988-h.htm?fbclid=IwAR0SWV1rgQ9R6ujdnpIBczP14MWsE9owQWgbT7IzV1GLxMyvXmBcobvCP8I